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- [S34] Ancestry.com, Find a Grave, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2012;), Capt Gustav Ludwig Karow - Birth: 9 Aug 1893 - Death: 25 Jun 1920 (aged 26) Port Royal, Beaufort County, South Carolina, USA - Burial: Bonaventure Cemetery, Savannah, Chatham County, Georgia, USA - Memorial ID: 76112170.
Killed in Action - Died in Airplane crash over Parris Island SC during World War II
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/76112170/gustav-ludwig-karow
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- [S3403] Killed in Action: Capt Gustav Karow - The Macon Telegram - 28 Jun 1920, (Name: The Macon Telegraph; Location: Macon County GA; Date: 28 Jun 1920;), CAPT. GUSTAV KAREW.
A large part of Savannah quit business and attended the funeral yesterday afternoon of Capt Gustav Karew USMC, killed in an airplane accident at Parris Island when Lieuts Fred Melthen and S E St George also met their death.
Capt Karew was a member of the local rifle association and one of the beat shot in the organization. He was prominent socially and in business as well as in military circles.
He was a native of Savannah aged 27; he married Miss Sarah Barrow a few years ago and leaves besides hia widow one small child; his mother; a sister in Philadelphia; a brother, Lester Karew, Savannah; and another brother in Minneapolis. He was a student at Princeton and then at VMI, graduating there. Ha began service with the marines as second lieutenant and was stationed at different times at Quantlco, San Diego, Hayti, Galveston, and New London. His promotion was rapid.
He was on sick leave and had been reporting to Parris Island for treatment. Hia death occurred when he was returning to Savannah where he had an engagement for a social affair which was to have been held et the hour his funeral occurred.
• The Macon Telegraph • Macon, Georgia • 28 Jun 1920, Mon • Page 5
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